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Author : James Miller Guinn
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Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book History of the State of California and Biographical Record to Oakland and Environs written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California Historical Society
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Total Pages : 304 pages
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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918843
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
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Author : James Miller Guinn
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Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book History of the State of California and Biographical Record to Oakland and Environs written by James Miller Guinn and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Lancaster
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
ISBN 13 : 1555538614
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Making Time written by Jane Lancaster and published by Northeastern University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers of Cheaper by the Dozen remember Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) as the working mom who endures the antics of not only twelve children but also an engineer husband eager to experiment with the principles of efficiency -- especially on his own household. What readers today might not know is that Lillian Gilbreth was herself a high-profile engineer, and the only woman to win the coveted Hoover Medal for engineers. She traveled the world, served as an advisor on women's issues to five U.S. presidents, and mingled with the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart. Her husband, Frank Gilbreth, died after twenty years of marriage, leaving her to raise their eleven surviving children, all under the age of nineteen. She continued her career and put each child through college. Retiring at the age of ninety, Lillian Gilbreth was the working mother who "did it all." Jane Lancaster's spirited and richly detailed biography tells Lillian Gilbreth's life story-one that resonates with issues faced today by many working women. Lancaster confronts the complexities of how one of the twentieth century's foremost career women could be pregnant, nursing, or caring for children for more than three decades. Yet we see how Gilbreth's engineering work dovetailed with her family life in the professional and domestic partnership that she forged with her husband and in her long solo career. The innovators behind many labor-saving devices and procedures used in factories, offices, and kitchens, the Gilbreths tackled the problem of efficiency through motion study. To this Lillian added a psychological dimension, with empathy toward the worker. The couple's expertise also yielded the "Gilbreth family system," a model that allowed the mother to be professionally active if she chose, while the parents worked together to raise responsible citizens. Lancaster has woven into her narrative many insights gleaned from interviews with the surviving Gilbreth children and from historical research into such topics as technology, family, work, and feminism. Filled with anecdotes, this definitive biography of Lillian Gilbreth will engage readers intrigued by one of America's most famous families and by one of the nation's most successful women.
Author : Scott Alumbaugh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493068709
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book On the Pony Express Trail written by Scott Alumbaugh and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pony Express has a hold on the American imagination wildly out of proportion to its actual role in the history of the West. The system of transporting mail to California by a relay of lone riders on swift horses ran less than eighteen months in 1860-1861 and failed by every measure of success. Nevertheless, it has become the most iconic symbol of the West. Scott Alumbaugh was so taken with the Pony Express that at age 62 he bikepacked 1,400 miles of the trail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Salt Lake City, Utah. Alumbaugh’s journey took five weeks on a route that was mostly off-road, sometimes through remote territory. Along the way he came to see the celebrated Pony Express as a collection of fables based on a few historical facts and reshaped into a symbol of the spirit that “won the West.” On The Pony Express Trail: One Man’s Bikepacking Journey to Discover History from a Different Kind of Saddle recounts Scott Alumbaugh’s experience bikepacking the Pony Express Trail during the summer of 2021. The narrative follows his day-to-day experiences and impressions—the challenges, the sites he visited, the country he rode through, and the interactions with the people he met—while taking a fresh look at the real Pony Express in the context of mid-1800s historical events along the trail: The Mexican-American, Utah, and Paiute Wars; the California and Pike’s Peak gold rushes; the overland emigration of hundreds of thousands to Oregon and California; the exodus of tens of thousands of Mormons to Utah; and the increasingly contentious fight over slavery along with the looming threat of civil war.
Author : California. Division of Mines and Geology
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Total Pages : 818 pages
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Download or read book Report of the State Geologist written by California. Division of Mines and Geology and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Division of Mines
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Total Pages : 902 pages
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Author : Lois Rather
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Total Pages : 124 pages
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Author : George Albert Pettitt
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Total Pages : 82 pages
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Author : California Library Association
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Total Pages : 602 pages
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Download or read book California Local History written by California Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
Publisher : Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
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Download or read book Subject Catalog; of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin written by State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library and published by Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing. This book was released on 1971 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winzler and Kelly Consulting Engineers
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Total Pages : 818 pages
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Download or read book A Summary of Knowledge of the Central and Northern California Coastal Zone and Offshore Areas: Master bibliography written by Winzler and Kelly Consulting Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 350 pages
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Author : Ronald S. Coddington
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421421364
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book Faces of the Civil War Navies written by Ronald S. Coddington and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival images and biographical sketches of common sailors on both sides of the conflict reveal the human side of the Civil War. During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of America’s great inland rivers. There were no large-scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the character of the war and affect its length. The first hostile shots roared from rebel artillery at Charleston Harbor. Along the Mississippi River and other inland waterways across the South, Union gunboats were often the first to arrive in deadly enemy territory. In the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic seaboard, blockaders in blue floated within earshot of gray garrisons that guarded vital ports. And on the open seas, rebel raiders wreaked havoc on civilian shipping. In Faces of the Civil War Navies, renowned researcher and Civil War photograph collector Ronald S. Coddington focuses his considerable skills on the Union and Confederate navies. Using identifiable cartes de visite of common sailors on both sides of the war, many of them never before published, Coddington uncovers the personal histories of each individual who looked into the eye of the primitive camera. These unique narratives are drawn from military and pension records, letters, diaries, period newspapers, and other primary sources. In addition to presenting the personal stories of seventy-seven intrepid volunteers, Coddington also focuses on the momentous naval events that ushered in an era of ironclad ships and other technical innovations. The fourth volume in Coddington’s series on Civil War soldiers, this microhistory will appeal to anyone with an interest in the Civil War, social history, or photography. The narratives and photographs in Faces of the Civil War Navies shed new light on a lesser-known part of our American story. Taken collectively, these “snapshots” remind us that the history of war is not merely a chronicle of campaigns won and lost, it is the collective personal odysseys of thousands of individual life stories.
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